Life Death Life Death

Death bothers me. The nurse explains to me that this is okay, that it would be bad if it didn't bother me. She states death bothers everyone because it causes you to face your own mortality. I face my own mortality with peace. Mortality doesn't scare me. It is all the stuff that precedes it that's scary. My own mortality is not fearsome. The mortality of those that I care about--that is terrifying. I suppose this is what makes many gravitate towards being a doctor--this intimate relationship with people that you don't even know. Helping to birth and fighting with death.